unessence

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noun

Lack of essence; that which is not essence.

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Meanings

noununessence (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesLack of essence; that which is not essence.
verbunessence (third-person singular simple present unessences, present participle unessencing, simple past and past participle unessenced)

present singular third person unessences · participle present unessencing · participle past unessenced · past unessenced

  1. transitiveTo deprive of its essential nature.

    Education is a vital process involving intelligent, growing, sensitive and dynamic human elements and it becomes mechanical at the risk of unessencing itself.

    1965, An introduction to educational and psychological research, page 7
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    Not only does truth, in these long intervals, unessence herself, but (what is harder) one cannot venture a crude fiction for the fear that it may ripen into a truth upon the voyage.

    1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC

Origin

From un- + essence.

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Chicago

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